Philadelphia, PA (15-Nov-02)

BOB DYLAN
First Union Center
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
November 15, 2002
DVDylan ID #981.su2
2-cam sound upgrade

3-5+/5+/4-/4-/5-
8-15/15/10/10/13 (avg. 12.50 B+)
Left rear 30°/Right balcony 45˙
1:03:43:22
PAL

IMPROVEMENTS OVER D981.su:
-missing songs, cuts & obstructed parts of MS-011 filled with clips from alternate camera
-different title and track menus

PERFORMANCE/HIGHLIGHTS/SPECIAL MOMENTS:
-magnificent performance
-cool covers of “The End Of The Innocence” & “Brown Sugar”
-Larry Campbell always smiling
-Charlie Sexton always cool

DISTANCE/POSITION: Left floor 30°/Right balcony 45˙ (all but Recile seen from left floor shot; all seen from right balcony; both cameras feature panning and zooming)

AUDIO: 15 (LB-9165)

STEADINESS: 10 (MS-011 sometimes jittery but always watchable; D037.sse quite steady)

HEADS/OBSTRUCTIONS: 10 (MS-011 shot hampered by standing crowd, but camera stays on the target; D037.sse virtually unobstructed)

FOCUS: 13 (MS-011 colorful with good light and focus; D037.sse adequate light, color & focus a notch below )

EDITING: missing song, cuts and obstructed parts filled w/stills & D183 clips; less vivid color adjustments used for songs with bright lights

Concert # 1485 of The Never-Ending Tour
Bob Dylan (vocal, harp, piano, electric & acoustic guitars)
Charlie Sexton (backup vocals, electric & acoustic guitars)
Larry Campbell (backup vocals, electric & acoustic guitars, mandolin, cittern, pedal steel guitar & electric slide guitar)
Tony Garnier (backup vocal on "Brown Sugar," standup & electric bass)
George Recile (drums & percussion).

Special thanks for the video to AN UNIDENTIFIED TAPER & AN
MS-011 source video transferred & disseminated by COOPS2009 and shared via DIME
Special thanks for the audio to THINMAN
Audio shared by OUTSIDETLAW
Edited, sound upgraded & shared by YASSOU

VIDEO SOURCES & LINEAGE:
D981/MS-011 (DIME download)
Taper: AN
transferred & disseminated by COOPS2009 and shared via DIME
43444/Left floor 30˙/59 minutes
filmed on a Panasonic a NV-DS1,
transferred in HQ mode to Sony DVDrecorder. Using a high gain dv firewire
Original camera used for transfer
menued with TEMPGENC Dvd author 4.3
VOB Format
MPEG-2 Sys Bitrate 10080 kb/s VBR
Pics/s 25.000 Fram,es's 25.000 Fields/s 50,000
DVD Pal format 4.3 ratio
Audio AC3 stereo 48 Khz
D981 > MacBookPro4,1. > VIDEO_TS > MPEGStreamclip 1.8.1 > dv > iMovie 6.0.3.

D037.sse
Taper, camera & processing unidentified
45455/Right balcony 50˙/2:32:03
source had silent spots in transitions to songs perhaps for a/v sync purposes
DVD obtained via trade
DVD > MacBookPro4,1. > VIDEO_TS > MPEGStreamclip 1.8.1 > PAL dv > iMovie 6.0.3.

AUDIO SOURCE & LINEAGE:
LB-9165 (BOOTLEG: Then Came The Warning (Thinman 143/144))
LB rating: A
Taper unidentified
Shared by OutsideTLaw via trade
LB-9165 (Disk 1) > Toast Titanium 10 > aiff>disk image > iMovie 6.0.3.

ADDITIONAL LB NOTES FOR LB-9165:
Factory Silvers>Ripped with XLD>flac
bittorrent download 02/11; same recording as LB-0829 based on same clapping wavs on d1t1 with similar wav and spectral view except levels are higher on this and it looks like this has an attempt to lessen the drops between tracks

DVD PROCESSING:
Audio and video assets edited in iMovie 6.0.3; authored, multiplexed and burned to VIDEO_TS folder in iDVD 7.1.2 (Professional Quality 2-pass variable bit rate encoding)